iOS 18.3: How Apple wants to avoid AI trouble with summaries
When the iPhone summarizes notifications, Apple's AI sometimes misses the mark. In iOS 18.3, users are warned better and some things no longer work.
Apple Intelligence on Mac, iPhone and iPad: Not yet perfect.
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Apple has made changes to controversial AI functions in the recently released third beta of iOS 18.3. This was reported by testers of the developer pre-release. The company had already announced this after various press organizations and journalist associations had even called for the end of the so-called AI Summaries.
Simply switched off for the time being
In iOS 18.3 beta 3, AI summaries for apps in the “News” and “Entertainment” categories are therefore no longer generated. However, this hammer solution seems to be only temporary and will return “in a later software update”. Apple had announced that it wanted to flag potentially incorrect summaries in future so that users could see the danger. This is not currently the case; you only see a simple icon that indicates summaries but does not look like AI.
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Apple has also placed a new warning in the system settings. In addition to the explanation of what AI summaries are, – – now contains a note that they “may contain errors”. The blocking of summaries for messages apparently does not work consistently; some apps seem to slip through due to the allocation in the App Store. It also remains unclear what the actual solution will look like, i.e., what type of labeling is planned.
Italics should fix it
Apple is taking a different approach to other apps and notifications from communication programs, for example: Instead of blocking them completely, they will now be italicized, along with the familiar Summaries icon. How helpful this is remains unclear, as users cannot deduce from italics alone that there may be errors here. Here, too, it is unclear whether this is Apple's final solution. Another new option concerns the display of summaries on the lock screen. This can now be switched off directly there per app with a swipe.
Among other things, the British broadcaster BBC had complained that Apple Intelligence had turned a web headline into the death notification of an assassin who was still alive. Other incorrectly summarized notifications concerned a fake darts world champion and a tennis player who had supposedly come out. Private notifications sometimes turned a difficult mountain hike into a “suicide”.
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